Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Why are fishes not able to survive in distilled water?
fish are hypertonic to distilled water, meaning that their cells' cytoplasm contains more solutes (proteins, carbohydrates, ions, etc) than the distilled water. because of this, distilled water will enter their cells by osmosis, causing the cells to swell and burst.
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